We're proud to announce the
unofficial USMS Postal Feet First 25 scy Sprint Swimming Championships
Rules:
+ you have to jump in feet first and remain feet first for the entire length
NO DIVING IN and TURNING AROUND
+ you may do a feet first start from the side in the water
Hands on wall
feet extended and pointed at the other end
swimmer may be on belly back or side
push off wall with arms after starter says go
+ clock starts
when the starter says go or the beeper beeps
you have to react to the starter's prompt,
no false starts
+ clock stops
when your feet touch the wall on the opposite end of the pool
+ can't push off the bottom
Submit Your
Name, team, age, sex,
time, technique, witnesses, & timer
This should be fun.
Better yet, make a video and put it on youtube
Do you think anyone could break 15 seconds?
What's the fastest way to swim FEET FIRST?
Try it out,
Submit your times
we look forward to reading your results
Rob, describe the reverse crawl. Were you on your stomach, or your back?
Anna LeaWell it wouldn’t be much of a reverse crawl on your back, now would it? Think of watching a freestyle race in reverse. The hand enters at the hip and pulls (pushes?) past the head and recovers back (forward?) to the hips. You can actually get a pretty good EVF (LVF?) in reverse.
As for starting, back in the day when we used to race feet first, corkscrew, synchrostyle (backstroke with one leg straight up out of the water, you got a time bonus for best toe point) we found the best start from the blocks was a ¾ flip. It starts out like a normal dive, but in air you tuck, flip and land feet first at an angle similar to a regular start. NOTE: this works best if you are an invulnerable teen age boy, not a creaky adult who should know better. And besides, didn’t we say in water starts?
Rob, describe the reverse crawl. Were you on your stomach, or your back?
Anna LeaWell it wouldn’t be much of a reverse crawl on your back, now would it? Think of watching a freestyle race in reverse. The hand enters at the hip and pulls (pushes?) past the head and recovers back (forward?) to the hips. You can actually get a pretty good EVF (LVF?) in reverse.
As for starting, back in the day when we used to race feet first, corkscrew, synchrostyle (backstroke with one leg straight up out of the water, you got a time bonus for best toe point) we found the best start from the blocks was a ¾ flip. It starts out like a normal dive, but in air you tuck, flip and land feet first at an angle similar to a regular start. NOTE: this works best if you are an invulnerable teen age boy, not a creaky adult who should know better. And besides, didn’t we say in water starts?
